Stormzy criticises the BBC for stereotyping young black men

Stormzy has described the BBC as “embarrassing” after airing a TV segment that questioned what he had called Theresa May during his acceptance speech at the GQ Awards earlier this week.

As he picked up the award for best solo artist, presented by Jeremy Corbyn, the South London star described Theresa May as a “paigon”, a term that was misheard as ‘pig’ by guests including Alastair Campbell.

Now, Stormzy has hit out at the BBC after they subsequently aired a Daily Politics segment in which guests were asked to guess which phrase that he used during the speech.

In the brief segment, guests were asked to choose from four options – peng, bossman, mandem, and paigon.

You lot are so embarrassing flipping hell lol. Young black men have a vocabulary that spans beyond those buzz words for future reference https://t.co/wzNPpXwc3i